skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The install command is failing on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, I get the following error:

tar: Unrecognized archive format

seems like a regression: https://github.com/martinrusev/amon/issues/27

[edit] Update: Manual installation was successful, but nothing runs on localhost:2464
eckyptany. Can't you by a per core license for sql server 2012? how many cores do you have?
the dollar and euro are also assets in that way. you're usually just not aware of its fluctuations (against each other, against other currencies, and against commodities)

look at any of the US dollar indexes, which examine the exchange rate of the dollar against other currencies to shake the belief that the dollar is stable: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
I'm a premium user for more than a year and I love it! It is indeed cheap, but making it more expensive won't get them the same number of paying people paying some amount of money. So from that I'd say that they aim to get more people to pay for music again. As nlh mentioned, he is not buying music anymore on iTunes. You could swap iTunes for downloading as well.

Spotify might as easily help artist to release their own music in a seperate section of the application. I would love to see something like this.
Grabeh - good points. We had feedback from f6s community members that they wanted to cover the case where either Mentor or Startup priorities changed during the agreement. The idea behind the ability to mutually terminate was to make sure either party could get out if the relationship wasn't delivering.

Your thinking on increasing the termination period is spot on. That was inserted primarily to cover the case where the Startup terminates the agreement after the Mentor delivers but before a 'fair' amount of vesting has happened. An extreme case would be where the Mentor delivers significant value before the Cliff Period ends, but the Startup terminates the agreement before any shares have vested.

Mentor/Startup alignment is key.

Having said all that, it's a template licensed under Creative Commons so please go ahead and modify it as needed for your particular case. Always be protected and use a legal professional ;)
JavaOne 2012: What’s New in Scala 2.10
I'm not sure that I know what you mean. These functions aren't obscure and have been around for quite a while. For example: CreateFileW [1]. It's just good hygiene to use the Unicode variants and normalize to UNC where appropriate. This has been the case for years.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa36...
One of the folks was threatening to take one on a world tour and send pictures back. Never got to see if that was implemented or not.
Zooming into the sci-fantastical world of O.Z.
Eric Evans on How Technology Influences DDD
The .mobile.cshtml is included out of the box, but you can also define other specific display modes with a lambda expression:

DisplayModeProvider.Instance.Modes.Insert(0, new
DefaultDisplayMode("iPhone")
{
ContextCondition = (context => context.GetOverriddenUserAgent().IndexOf
("iPhone", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) >= 0)
});

After calling that, you can create a view (index.iphone.cshtml) and it'll be automatically picked up when the condition's matched. This example uses the user agent, but you can use any logic you'd like - cookie / database call / time of day / whatever.
Sleep Hacking - Supplements
Apple releases Supplemental Update 1.0 for Mountain Lion 10.8.2
Great discussion. It's really hard to get an objective discussion about Zynga around these parts.

Looking from personal experience with casinos, my gut instinct tells me they are definitely dangerous, but the one thing that tempts me to play is the cool factor around them. You think Zynga would do well to try and create an aura of coolness and sophistication around their upcoming games?
> If the customer are crazy about it the musician would most likely earn more if he listened through spotify rather than buying it.

Estimates vary, but $0.0033 is quoted as a possible pay per stream from Spotify. I had some plays on one invoice from a label but it was less than a penny. [for comparison: I've gotten $75 for a single play on BBC]

So for a 99 cent track you would get 300 plays for that price. That means 10 times a day for 30 days if you are really crazy about it (you are either a teenage girl or you are trying to piss off your neighbors). Or 3 times a day for 100 days. Or 10 times a year for 30 years (let's just guess that its highly unlikely that you are still on Spotify or that you are using the same mp3)

[edit: calculator fail]

For a 5 minute song that's 1500 minutes of stereophonic pleasure. 25 hours.

Let's assume you bought the entire album. 10 tracks. That's 250 hours total listening time.

This is what you'll have to do in order for the artist to earn the same amount as your $9.99 album purchase would have brought in.

> Musicians get waay more money from me thanks to spotify than they ever would get otherwise.

By which I'm guessing that you aren't a music collector and you didn't really buy music anyway.

Purchasing music, especially vinyl or nicely crafted packaged CDs is about building a collection that expresses who you are. People come over and you get out the records. They look through your CD or record shelf while they are at your place. This ritual is how people connect, find out about the other person and it opens up conversations. That era is gone.

Digital weakened that and selling digital is just a fake simulation of the era of buying physical recordings. We know its dead, it was transitory and the era of replication is over. Its not just the economics, its abundance.

Still, buying music (even if its a dead art form) is not to obtain a utility value. Its purchasing a signifier of self identity.

I've had Spotify beta since 2008 and I've loved going through the massive back catalogs and listening to stuff. It was insane how much music they loaded into the system back then. Once they opened it up to the public they had to axe most of it when they couldn't get deals with the labels.
another drives a tugboat around Puget Sound for fun and profit

This is one of the most underrated jobs around. Good pilots will make >200k working 4 days a week doing this.
1000 engineers? Probably not, but likely many hundreds plus all the organizational support people like designers, product marketers, product managers, people managers, and admins.

Consider Google's opportunity cost for advertising on the "internet's home page". I've read estimates of $2B.

For a while, Google was also paying Adobe to bundle Chrome with Flash (in addition to bundling Flash with Chrome).
I mean that to maintain compatibility with legacy stuff I expect I won't be able to take advantage of it for quite a while.
There's very, very little work going on with AI in drones. We're not there yet. We're still working on getting the sensors right and dealing with datalinks. The vast majority are remotely piloted, some are remotely directed (point and click to location, the drone maneuvers to get there), all are controlled by humans.

This "robot drone aircraft freakout" sounds as silly to me as an aerospace engineer as worries about malicious hackers shutting down the US power grid sound to you.
It was a joke. Notice how I deliberately mis-spelt 'typo' in the second sentence.
but the original Nexus will still receive the latest google maps, gmail, etc that aren't tied to the OS version like they are in iOS.
Actually it is a yes, they cannot decrypt your data as they do not keep your password around. You have to enter it every time you want to restore a file, and it is not saved on their side only used to get the files then thrown away again.

Of course, if you have so sensitive stuff that you cannot accept it ever being on another server in clear text then it still a no on that question.
Ha ha ha ha

We have nukes, and short of that we'll suck our allies into any conflict we can.

So unfortunately, our worthless politicians can affect your life too. Had your balls grabbed at an airport recently?
This interactive artwork makes me seriously want to watch the show being promoted (Tin Man, a TV miniseries). Many of the pieces in it are stunningly evocative (like the Asian city) and bring to mind some of the best adventure games of yesteryear.

Also of note: the original Zoomquilt, a collaborative art project:

http://www.zoomquilt.org/

and Zoomquilt II:

http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/
Of course you can just use SHA-3 as part of a PBKDF. I don't get the kneejerk "use bcrypt!!" thing.
Not nice at all, to say the least.
Even ignoring the google.com thing, estimates are they're spending at least $500 million a year on Chrome marketing for ads on other sites, various bundling deals (including pre-installs on new PCs and auto-installs with other software), etc.

As far as people on Chrome go, you're right that back in 2008 they likely did not have 1000+ people on it. The best data I can find for mid-2008 on the Internet says about 50 in mid-2008.

Looking for newer data, according to the last several updates on http://peter.sh/ at this point there are about 100 daily WebKit commits (not all by Google, obviously) and about 120 daily Chromium commits. That's not counting the parts of Chrome that aren't WebKit or Chromium. What fraction of the WebKit commits are from Google is an interesting question; as of early 2010 according to http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2010/02/webkit-... it was around 40-45% and growing rapidly.

Now going from "number of commits" to "number of engineers" is hard. For comparison, as of today according to http://oduinn.com/blog/2012/09/04/infrastructure-load-for-au... Mozilla has about 200 commits per day, but about half of those are to the automated testing repository, not to the main code. So that's about 100 commits per day. Mozilla right now has around 700 employees, I believe. So if you assume similar commit patterns (which is an assumption, granted), Google certainly has 1000+ people on Chrome now.

But I'm also not sure you need 1000+ people to hit $250 million/year in spending. In addition to Silicon Valley compensation packages, there's also a lot of test infrastructure and whatnot as part of every browser project which costs nontrivial amounts of money to create and maintain.

Again for comparison, since there's data available there, Mozilla spent about $63 million on "software development" in 2010 ($85 million if you include stuff like office space, HR, marketing, etc) according to http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-2010-audited-... and had about 200 engineers at the time, I believe... and Mozilla does not give out huge stock bonuses, like Google has done with Chrome.
He's ignorant and innumerate. Trifecta!
Exactly - Apple and Microsoft have struggled mightily with file systems. I've never heard anyone put Samsung in their league in terms of software...
The important thing is that Bitcoin doesn't [inflate]. Being convertible with other currencies means its value can only rise

Value is a function of supply and demand, not just supply. The value of a bitcoin can fall, as it has done many times in the past.
>also walk around downtown in SF and NYC and look at the amount of skyscrapers that are nothing but banks, scratch your head, and ask yourself what value they're actually adding.

True. But I suppose one would need to define "what is a bank". From a pure "money warehouse" definition they don't deserve to be that big, however from a lending / investment perspective there is more value there.

I think in the end, a decentralized lending scheme (Mike Hearn has spoken and written on this subject) integrated to bitcoin as the possibility to radically change the social order.

It will very hard to fund wars without a printing press.
The number of completely wrong generalizations about distributions I hear by people being sincere prevents me from reading that as anything but one. People saying "only Ubuntu X" when they really mean "only debian-based X" is one of the most common mistakes I hear.

If I did misread it, that's an even worse thing to say. If a person is in the position of asking if ufw will work on CentOS, it is downright mean to give an answer that requires them understand esoteric particulars of the debian bloodline.
The growing pains associated with pay not meeting (or barely meeting) the cost of living.
Apple Acquires AuthenTec: A Fingerprint as a Key?
You honestly think an artist/label getting $0.003 per play is 'so much'?

Yes. And this sense of entitlement is getting on my nerves.

The cost of music distribution has gone from infinite to ZERO in just about 130 years. This is a great achievement for us as a species and we should adapt accordingly instead of bemourning expired business models.

The music industry was constructed around the bottleneck of physical media distribution. This bottleneck does not exist anymore.
A good friend of mine is a software engineer in their NYC office.

Some observations:

1) They have really cool concerts in their office regularly, and often have B-list musicians in their office .

2) They fly all new NYC employees to Sweden for a couple weeks for training and culture immersion.

3) Being in NYC allows them (it seems) to pay less than comparable jobs here in San Francisco. Probably because there are far fewer cool startups in NYC to compete for talent with.

4) The name "Spotify" was a total fluke and accident, one co-founder mis-heard another, bought the domain, and the rest is history.
I'm talking supported builds, not signed builds. You know with the pile of pre-paid support credits that we get with our partnership agreement which are supposed to result in solutions. Every support call requires a week long argument with the lowest grade of software support who phone me up and ask if they can close the call every day without escalating it. I'm aware of the support options you mention, which basically result in "yes, just limp along with the dependency injection problems with ActionFilters in MVC3 for 6 months" or fork and fix it yourself. We chose the latter, but it's expensive so we might as well forfeit the partner agreement, use Open Source software and pay someone to maintain our forks and contribute patches to the products.

We've looked at NDjango, but it's based on F# and as we well know, unless a product is a mainstream MS platform then it's liable to go out of the window on a whim or is shrouded constantly with uncertainty (choke silverlight, original workflow foundation, XNA? etc).

Sorry if this is rather critical and slightly ranty, but I'm slightly pissed off with maintaining this mess.
What does this mean for people currently working as programmers? Will it be necessary to study up and get licensed to remain competitive?
Hate to even dignify this with a reply, but confusing spelling mistakes with grammar mistakes isn't cool either.
Why Do We Dump Our Greatest Projects?
Black Menu: All Your Google Service At One Place On Chrome Browser.
Please edit this link to the following:

http://betashop.com/post/32913573235/90-things-ive-learned-f...

As soon as Betashop posts again to their blog it will start to get confusing.
Sort of. The package building system is very simple and arch provides facilities for building everything from scratch if you want to.[1]

[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Build_System
The original killer of YouTube was YouTube; the company was burning a lot of money and might not have made it, had Google not bought it.

It takes a company like Google to take a chance like that, and there probably aren't that many up for the challenge.

Even Vimeo is barely getting by, albeit with black figures.
Never heard of Pow before, but on inspection it looks very interesting and could save a bunch of time.

Anyone know if there's any way to make it work with python (WSGI or similar) services? It's kinda hard to search 'pow' without ending up at various exponentiation functions :/
The Assessment: Steve Jobs, 2011-Present
Another angle on this is that there are many different types of programming. A math degree is not necessarily a huge advantage for a career in webdev but imho it is a nice start for scientific computing or data mining.
Mind Reading And Data Science
We would hire you at my company.

We've got a unique hiring method in that we hire Pure Math students exclusively (for development). We don't even look at "programmers" anymore. We take them from basically never writing a line of production code in their life, and turn them into great developers in a very short period of time.

Our company does a lot of theoretical compiler type stuff, so Math students fit well into that. We've done this with a number of people now, and it works pretty well.

Shoot an email to work@skybound.ca if you're interested.
What really causes hiccups?
I owned that phone, it did suck.

The only good thing about that phone (besides the screen) is that it was nearly unbreakable and had a great custom Rom scene. Almost all of the roms replaced the file system.
Yes, it can fall at any point whenever demand goes down. But on a longer run, I believe demand won't go down but up, since it has this competitive advantage over other currencies.
Agile is still not widely embraced
I don't understand how anyone can be a working programmer and fail the FizzBuzz test. What are these individuals working on that allows them to contribute enough to the company to not get fired?
bitcoin's problem is that the financial sector is massively regulated - you're going to jail if you attempt to compete.

creating a website where you can store $10, send it to me, and then let me withdraw it, is a 5 year felony in california. that's even when the site is complying with all anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer regulation that could be argued for because of terrorism. it's purely a licensing issue.

bitcoin's influence probably won't significantly grow until people find legal workarounds/ways to comply (of which there are plenty, but likely implementing them takes someone committed at least a year), or something happens that makes enforcement of the law unlikely.

i personally know of a sizable number of bitcoin startups with working/finished software and a great marketing strategy, that gave up in the face of financial regulation and threatened jail time.
My two critiques would be:

- This strikes me as putting the tactics before the strategy. What specific goal(s) is this trying to accomplish? It would be much better to start there and work backwards. (Albeit most likely there is a lot of important information that was left out of the article.)

- The other issue is that effective lobbying tends to be really difficult unless you're highly trained, have tons of practice, and have good relationships with the senators and congressman you're trying to target or else have an enormous reputation for shipping. Some of the folks you'll want to target are bat shit crazy, others are too dumb to understand what you're talking about, others are already well-informed and you'll be wasting their time, most will have all sorts of financial conflicts of interest, etc.

Again, it's difficult to properly critique this without knowing what it's supposed to accomplish, but those would be my general thoughts.
IP is a legal fiction created and enforced to further explicit public policy objectives--specifically, to incentivize creativity and to create a safe protected space for innovation. If those public policy objectives are not being met, then continuing to implement IP in its original form is harmful to society as a whole.

In other words, a company that is relying on policies implemented to stimulate economic growth and development a century ago--and is using the power of its protected market position to interfere in the democratic process that might align policy with the economic realities of today--is certainly not any kind of "victim". If there are any victims, they are the people whose true economic potential is being suppressed by the continuing existence of outdated laws.

I'm not advocating for an elimination of IP, but I am saying that IP needs to be reformed in a way that will reduce the wealth of companies and individuals who do cling to a pre-internet business model, and it is right to attack them to the extent that a defense of their interests is preventing a modernization of the laws.
Oh, please write about your experiences programming those chips. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to hear all about it. I'd particularly like to know how you deploy code to the 144 cores and how they talk to one another.

Edit: that request is to anyone who has programmed the GreenArrays chips.
TiAMO on founding PRQ - TPB AFK movie
I totally agree. They looked professional until i saw this "curl install.amon.cx | bash"

Are they crazy? What if they loose this domain for some reason, and somebody puts different code there.
With Apple, there's usually a usability reason for these decisions. When you get to update, but certain features aren't enabled, I'm not sure that's planned obsolecense. Not releasing ICS for phones launched last year is, but in this iPhone 4 vs 4S situation, looking at what iOS 6 features you do get vs which you don't, there's a common thread that points to something else.

On your device you get iOS 6, but 3D turn by turn NAV is designed to run in parallel (multitasking) with other apps like Mail or Messages. Consider the performance gain of the iPhone 4S vs the iPhone 4 (nearly 2x, see below), and consider how users would react if the background turn by turn nav was causing their foreground apps to freeze.

A hallmark of the iPhone experience is fluidity. It's one of the painfully obvious differences to owners of both OSs (I own a Google Nexus as well). Framerate and responsiveness make the UI feel more tactile and real, connected to your touch and intentions. My speculation is that the processing power needed for the turn by turn could degrade the experience while in other apps, so it was nixed.
As a biologist, I'm going to have to object. No matter what level of talent and competence you have, there are very few opportunities in this field to make a nice living. You're pretty much relegated to becoming a tenured professor (good luck) or working your way up in an established biotech firm doing work many would consider mind-numbing. At best, you're looking at the low-end of six figures for someone with decades of experience and an amazing track record, and there are very few of those positions. You can go the entrepreneurial biotech route, this is HN after all, but considering the small number of successful firms we can safely leave that option out for the purposes of salary estimation.

I think this is a factor of latency in added value. It seems to me that higher salaries are often given to those who can provide immediate usable value in the short term (lawyers, stock traders, some programmers). Long-term value-add professions, such as biology and many other R&D fields, tend to get the short end of the stick salary wise. Perhaps this is tied into the immediate gratification complex of western culture; professions with a significant value-add prospect >~5 years in the future have a difficult time arguing their own worth.
It could be necessary to be licensed for government jobs or jobs in large companies building real time critical systems (ie power grid control software, avionics, etc). I doubt it'll ever catch on for programming jobs in mobile/web/etc
On the other side of the coin, people who picked up programming as a hobby while they were 10 might have picked up some rather nasty habits that need to be unlearned, where as someone who is learning in school at age 20 won't have those problems.
Are the Chinese Happy?
If you like Jinja2 then use it. We have been using it for templating, running with IronPython, for the last couple of years.
And then there are Stockholm where I paid about $300k for roughly 365 square feet a month ago or so...
This article was posted (twice) a few months back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4116554

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4110296